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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

snow on the hills

Someone asked about snow this morning...yes, it is cold enough that I would not be surprised to snow mixed in at higher elevations in the lowlands (above 500 ft)....the latest profiler in Seattle shows a freezing level of 1500 ft, so there could be snow down to 1000 ft below that...and precipiation could cause the freezng level to drop a bit.

It was a mix of snow and rain earlier this morning up in Shoreline, near Ballinger Lake. By the time I left for work around 8:45, it was snowing - albeit pretty wet snow. April Fools from the Weather Gods indeed!

THE COLDEST MARCH IN OVER THREE DECADES CAME TO A CLOSE YESTERDAY WITH ANOTHER BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURE DAY. AT SEATTLE TACOMA AIRPORT THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH WAS 41.7 DEGREES WHICH IS 4.5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS IS THE COLDEST MARCH SINCE 1976. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN MARCH 1976 WAS 41.2 DEGREES. MARCH 2009 WAS THE 7TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD AT THE AIRPORT. RECORDS AT SEATTLE-TACOMA AIRPORT STARTED IN 1945. INCLUDING THE OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE WHICH STARTED IN 1891 THIS WAS THE 10TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD FOR SEATTLE.

AT QUILLAYUTE...HOQUIAM AND OLYMPIA THIS WAS THE THIRD COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD. RECORDS BEGAN AT QUILLAYUTE IN 1966...HOQUIAM 1953 AND OLYMPIA IN 1948.